Welcome to “Ordinary Time”

According to the liturgical calendar of the Traditional Roman Rite, today is Pentecost Monday, the day after Pentecost Sunday.

On the NovusOrdo calendar, however, today constitutes the beginning of “Ordinary Time” – a specific period of weeks unique to what might best be considered “our time.”

Though “Ordinary Time” also follows Pentecost in a chronological sense, spiritually it is rooted not so much in the birth of the Catholic Church and the descent of the Holy Ghost, but rather in the “NewPentecost” that gave birth to a new church at Vatican Council II.

The phrase “New Pentecost” can be traced back to the Apostolic Constitution, HumanaeSalutis, wherein Pope John XXIII formally convoked the Second Vatican Council, praying to the Holy Ghost:

“Divine Spirit, renew your wonders in our time, as though for a New Pentecost…”

In 1961 as Pope John XXIII offered this prayer, roughly 22 months had passed since he had read the Third secret of Fatima.

Among those who also read the as yet unrevealed Secret was Cardinal Mario Luigi Ciappi, personal theologian to Pope Pius XII, John XXIII and their next three successors.

According to him:

“In the Third Secret, it is foretold, among other things, that the Great Apostasy in the Church begins at the top.”

So, how did Pope John XXIII, the man who occupied “the top” of the Catholic Church on earth at that very moment react to this message?

He reportedly remarked, “This message is not for our time.”

You see, for John XXIII, “our time” was that time when men, even within the Church, had grown so restless in their pursuit of worldly acclaim in the name of so-called “progress” that they desired to ignite a New Pentecost, and the pope himself would provide the spark in the calling of the Council.

“Renew your wonders in our time, as though for a New Pentecost…”

So, how will future generations look back upon our time?

It seems to me that they will look back on the conciliar age as that regrettable time in human history when even our churchmen became drunk on self-adulation; so captivated by their own accomplishments and so thoroughly convinced of their soaring dignity that they embraced the delusion that “all things on earth should be related to man as their center and crown.” (Vatican Council II, Gaudium et Spes)

This, my friends, is the “our time” of which Pope John XXIII spoke.

The Latin phrase for “our time” is Nostra Aetate, the name given to the Declaration on the Relation of the Church to the Non-Christian Religions of Vatican II; a document wherein it is exceedingly clear that this Council ended up being precisely what John XXIII had hoped that it would be:

A “New Pentecost” – the birth of a newchurch; one quite unlike the Holy Catholic Church.

This phrase “New Pentecost” strikes me as the arrogance of Satan on display.

Sure, he is the most subtle of all creatures, but he is also prideful to the point where he cannot help but flaunt his evil.

Knowing that histime is short, one can almost imagine him bragging before the Lord as if to say:

You had your Pentecost. Watch as I tempt your vicar to invoke a new one. One that will give birth to a new church wherein man, not you, but man is king. Just you wait and see!

At the first and only true Pentecost, St. Peter, our first pope, boldly evangelized the Jews; calling upon them loudly and clearly:

“Repent, and be baptized … every one of you … in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins!”

Following the NewPentecost, the one that John XXIII envisioned for our time, we find, just as we might expect, something entirely different.

Rather than calling upon the Jews to come to the waters of baptism that they might be saved, the Council, in the document Nostra Aetate, even goes so far as to misappropriate St. Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians in order to suggest that the Jews in our time – a people who plainly reject Jesus Christ – have been made one with us by His Cross!

With this in mind, the leaders of the newchurch see no need for the Jews, or anyone else for that matter, to renounce their errors and embrace the Holy Catholic faith.

At the heart of the “New Pentecost” that inaugurated our time, as I suggested in Satan’s hypothetical boast before the Lord, is the dethronement of Christ the King and the virtual enthronement of man in His place.

By contrast, exhorting the Jews at the real Pentecost, St. Peter proclaimed the Kingship of Christ, saying:

“Brethren, let me freely speak to you of the patriarch David … He was a prophet and knew that God had sworn to him an oath … that of the fruit of his loins one should sit upon his throne.”

He then proclaimed the identity of this King whose reign is everlasting, saying:

“Let all the house of Israel know most certainly that God hath made both Lord and Christ, this same Jesus, whom you have crucified.”

This event is so familiar to us that we sometimes fail to fully appreciate its magnitude.

Roughly seven weeks earlier, Pilate had assented to the Jews’ demands for the crucifixion of Our Lord, at least in part, for fear of an uprising as the population of Judea over which he governed had swelled many times over with Jews there to celebrate the Passover.

When they were stirred up against Jesus, Pilate chose the most expedient solution.

And yet, what did the Apostles do on Pentecost?

Even though they presumably knew that Pilate would be on high alert for any potential uprising that might be instigated by the followers of Jesus, they went out among the crowds, the population of Judea once again swollen with Jews who had come from all over to celebrate Shavuot – the Feast of First Fruits – and they proclaimed the Kingship of Christ; calling the Jews to conversion!

Following the “New Pentecost,” the voice of those who presume to speak in the name of the Church dare not call anyone to conversion.

Rather, they look to the practitioners of the false religions and encourage them to persist in their errors.

The churchmen of our time even go so far as to insist that men have a natural right, not only to practice their false religions in private, but to disseminate their errors in public; i.e., they openly encourage mutiny against the King once preached by St. Peter!

This too is a direct fruit of the “New Pentecost;” specifically, the Second Vatican Council’s Declaration on Religious Liberty, Dignitatis Humanae.

Welcome to Ordinary Time…

As readers of this space know very well, the Church is in crisis.

What some may not know is that the problem, properly speaking, isn’t Francis. He is an especially nasty symptom, but he isn’t the disease.

You see, Francis is the first “pope” to come of age in our time; the first whose seminary experience was shaped exclusively by Vatican II and its narcissistic fixation on man.

Unless and until the decrees produced by this Council are looked upon and rejected for what they truly are – the founding documents of a new church, born of a NewPentecost, boasting even of a New Mass and a new calendar – the crisis that has come to define our time will most certainly go on.

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tradprofessorJune 5, 2017

Excellent, Louie.

You write: “Unless and until the decrees produced by this Council are looked upon and rejected for what they truly are – the founding documents of a new church, born of a New Pentecost, boasting even of a New Mass and a new calendar – the crisis that has come to define our time will most certainly go on.”

Can anyone seriously see the possibility of any pope anywhere in the future who will correct all of this? It isn’t going to happen. We can’t in one breath say a “new church” (it would have to be sect since there is only one true Church) was born out of Vatican II and then think somehow this new sect could revert back to being the Catholic Church. We’ve been distracted away from the true Church for so long–incrementally–that we don’t even realize that Bergoglio isn’t perverting the Church, he moving a new sect even future into secular humanism. The Church–the remnant–is there. We just have to admit it and move toward that light.

We know with certainty, because of Fatima, that Portugal and Russia will have the Faith in the foreseeable future. A Pope with connections to one or both of these countries will be part of the solution…I would guess.

Louie, you really know how to connect the dots. Any company that issues a “New and Improved” product, abandons the old product. That’s what V2 did. The powers that be in New Church will never bring back the Old Tried and True product (aka Catholicism). At least, they had the honesty to call this fabrication of man Novus Ordo (New Order). It’s an inferior useless “product of man” while abandoning the True Product (the Holy, Roman Catholic Church) given to us by Christ Himself.

New Church, new teachings, new everything! Isn’t new just wonderful. The current rulers of the Church, enemies of Christ, hate the true Catholic Church and won’t stop till they have made it just another protestant denomination. They are more than half-way there. The longer they are in control without God chastising them, the bolder they become in their effort to destroy Him. I think that God will let them get to the point where they can almost touch victory and then he will annihilate them.

We know that for God, anything is possible. We don’t know what His plans are, only that whatever He has allowed is for His glory and our good.

We know there will be constant Revolutions against Christ and His Church until He returns as He told us to expect them. He told us we would have to suffer and be hated and persecuted as He was. We have always been called to live our daily life as if Christ will return at any moment. We know that He alone is the ruler of Heaven and earth and the only judge of men. Our responsibility, we know, if we truly love God and His Church and hope to live eternally in His presence, is to persevere in the true faith. If we know the voice of the True Shepherd, we know to reject the voices of those who encourage us to abandon Him. We know we must pray, fast, repent of our own sins, and perform some kind of reparations for them and the whole world while trying mightily to follow the commandments of God and love our enemies and our neighbors as God loves us. We know we must pray that all of the people of the world are converted to believe in the one, True God and become members of the one, true Catholic Church.

Since Our Lady specifically named the time for the secret to be revealed, we must assume Roncalli considered his judgment to be superior to Christ’s mother’s. Of course, he was correct to disregard her request , if his intention was to subvert the holy Roman Catholic Church. We all can see the fruits of his disobedience today.